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South Carolina Arrested 80 People At A Street Takeover — But The Real Punishment Is What Happens To Their Cars
More than 80 people — 80 adults and an unspecified number of juveniles — were arrested outside Greenville, South Carolina, over the weekend after a crowd swarmed a stoplight intersection to watch a car spin donuts inside a human circle. That’s the headline every outlet is running with. It’s the wrong one. The real story…
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BYD’s Pakistan Factory Missed Its Deadline Again — And BYD Isn’t The One Who Should Be Sweating
A car factory in the Sindh desert just blew through another deadline. On its own, that’s not news. Assembly plants slip their opening dates constantly in emerging markets. What makes this particular delay worth a second look is who actually stands to lose sleep over it. It isn’t BYD, the Chinese company whose badge will…
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Ford Versus DOT: What The Federal Filings Reveal About Its China Ties
The Department of Transportation does not decide where car companies buy parts. That job belongs to Commerce, the Trade Representative, and Congress. Sean Duffy wrote to Jim Farley anyway. The letter is dated September 3 and runs about two pages. DOT posted it publicly on September 8. Duffy tells Ford’s CEO that the company’s recent…
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Watch: A Corvette’s Donut Show Created Its Own Smoke Screen, Sent a Honda Into a House
A Corvette’s donuts blinded a Longwood intersection with its own smoke, sending a Honda into a house. The real story is how little Florida’s insurance minimums actually cover.
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Audi’s 7,500 Job Cuts: What Brussels Sale And VW’s 2030 Plan Reveal
A Belgian real estate group bought the corpse of Audi Brussels on Tuesday, September 1. Two days later, Volkswagen Group’s supervisory board signed off on a plan that puts an Audi plant in Germany on a watch list. If you want to understand where Europe’s premium car industry actually is right now, those two announcements…
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Half a Million Ford Edges May Be Drowning Their Own Engines — And Technically, No One’s Investigating Yet
Ford’s Edge has been dead since 2024. No factory builds it, no dealer orders one, and no marketing budget defends it. That makes what just happened in Washington a little strange: the federal government agreed this month to take a fresh look at nearly half a million of them over an engine that may be…
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Volkswagen Is Killing Seat To Save Its Own Spinoff — and Just Admitted To 2,600 Different Car Seat Designs
Volkswagen’s plan to halve its lineup by 2030 also kills the Seat brand — and reveals a stranger number buried in the fine print: 2,600 different seat designs across Audi, Bentley, and Lamborghini alone.
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An Alabama Dealership Just Made Youth Sports Almost Free. Don’t Mistake That For Charity.
A car dealership in Albertville, Alabama just cut the price of a season of youth football from $150 to $25. Baseball, basketball and soccer all dropped to the same flat rate. No income test, no residency requirement, no fine print. It reads like a heartwarming local news segment, and it is one. It is also…
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Tesla’s Newest Recall Covers Just 19 Cars. It’s the Same Bolt That’s Failed Four Times Since 2021.
A Recall So Small It’s Almost the Point Nineteen cars. That’s the entire population of Tesla’s newest safety recall, filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on September 1, 2026, as Campaign 26V558000. Nineteen 2026 Model Ys, somewhere on American roads or still sitting on dealer lots, left the factory with a front suspension…
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GM Bragged About Inventing Brake-By-Wire. Regulators Expanded a Federal Probe Into It One Day Later.
On August 20, General Motors’ own newsroom published a nostalgic technical retrospective crediting the doomed 1990s EV1 with inventing brake-by-wire, a system GM once called the world’s most efficient and intelligent stopping system. One day later, federal regulators expanded a defect investigation into 1.16 million GM-built vehicles running the modern descendant of that same technology.…
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Fuel Economy Rollback: What NHTSA’s Own Numbers Say About Car Prices
There’s a number attached to the coming fuel-economy rollback, and depending on which government document you open, it’s $900, $925, or $1,000. All three describe the same modeled figure. Only one of them appears in the actual arithmetic. Open Table 1-2 of NHTSA’s Preliminary Regulatory Impact Analysis for SAFE Vehicles Rule III and the per-vehicle…
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Watch: Colorado Cops Netted a Fleeing Suspect With a Grapple That Costs $399 a Shot
A Douglas County deputy and a Castle Rock police officer ended a car chase on August 30 by firing a net at the rear wheel of a fleeing car. The robbery suspect behind the wheel stopped fast. His passenger didn’t get much further: he bailed out and ran, and officers had him in cuffs within…
